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Trailing

noun

1.

The pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind. Synonym: tracking.

Trail

verb

(past & past part. trailed; pres. part. trailing)

1.

To lag or linger behind. Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back.

2.

Go after with the intent to catch. Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track. "The dog chased the rabbit"

3.

Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly. Synonym: shack. "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"

4.

Hang down so as to drag along the ground.

5.

Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground. Synonym: train. "She trained her long scarf behind her"

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"Trailing" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked at him so, and then resuming her imperious air with a palpable effort and forcing a smile to her lips, she gathered up her trailing gown and passed slowly beneath the colonnade, Calvert following at her side. As she turned away, he stooped quickly and picked up the white rose she had worn where it had fallen on ...

— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe

... trailing across the valley in two separate columns, thousands of horsemen and women, the men on the right hand, the women on the left; all riding bareback with simple riatas twisted around the horse's lower jaw. Save for their sandals and ...

— When Dreams Come True • Ritter Brown

... our afternoon gymnastic class begin to scatter literally to the four winds; or they look in for a moment, on their way home from the woods, their hands filled and scented with long wreaths of the trailing arbutus. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

... only just ready when the children began to arrive. I flew downstairs and found not only children in every shape and form, but mothers in big hats and trailing skirts, and Frauleins in small hats and skirts curtailed, mademoiselles and nannies. The nannies I handed over to the nursery department, and the mothers and the Frauleins and the mademoiselles I arranged in a dado round the room, making ...

— The Professional Aunt • Mary C.E. Wemyss

... seems right and natural for a writer who has made William Morris his peg to discuss; and if I discuss something quite different it may look as though, forsaking profitable hares, I were after a herring of my own trailing. Yet, reading this book, I find that the question that interests me most is: "Why does Clutton Brock tend to overrate William Morris?" To answer it I have had to discover what sort of person I suppose Clutton Brock to be, and ...

— Pot-Boilers • Clive Bell

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